Nepali Girls Rippin It Up: 8/10/08

What this is all about - Scroll down for latest updates!!!

This blog is all about a kayaking project for Nepali girls and our adventure to get over there and help them out. We will keep you updated through this blog with how sponsorship and donations are going and hopefully while we are over there we can keep posting on here - Thanks for checking it out.

The aim of the project is to produce a group of female river guides to work on the rivers in Nepal as safety kayakers, raft guides and kayak instructors. It will be a perfect base for the women to start training and eventually work and support themselves as employees or free lance guides within the Nepal white-water industry.

If you would like to help out in any way with this project whether it's advice, sponsorship, gear, donations, idea's or anything else then please send us an email, give us a call or follow the donations link, it would be much appreciated. Cheers

Check out Inka Trollsas's website (she is the instigator of this awesome project), which has more info about the trip and how things are going from her end. http://www.farawayadventures.com/nepaligirlkayakers.php

Sunday, August 10, 2008

A quick update

A few days ago Inka received an email from a woman. She was the first Iranian woman to white-water kayak, 3 years ago. She is now part of the Iranian national womens slalom team and is hoping to come to Nepal with her 16 year old daughter to be a part of this project.

Whitney, a good friend of mine, who is from the states but spent last summer working on the Kaituna, has decided to come to Nepal. Currently she is teaching yoga classes and all the money made from them is going towards gear and funding for the Nepali Girls, so far she has made $400 which is fantastic

We have also had a new addition to the trip, Hayley Segal, a Kiwi girl, which is very exciting as she will be a great asset to this project.

A huge thanks to Hayden Bateman who is donating a spray deck and B.A, and to Steve Tudehope who is donating 2 paddle jackets a helmet and a drybag.

If anyone has gear lying around out there we will take anything, as every little peice makes a huge difference.

Thanks heaps for reading, Sophie

Also check out Inka's website by clicking on the link as she has lots of exciting updates too.

ABOUT US

So far there are 7 of us Kiwi girls committed to this project. We are all great buddies and have spent a lot of time together on and off the river. We have all come through Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology where we studied Outdoor Education and Recreation in some form. Most of us spent last summer paddling and hanging out in Uganda on the White Nile where we had a blast. We are super excited about this trip to Nepal and the opportunity to be part of this amazing project.

What we are up to now ............................

Malaika Davies

Malaika has filled the last few years with heaps of traveling, working and exploring in countries all over the show. Malaysia, India, States, Ireland, Scotland, and generally getting into all kinds of exciting situations. She always has an exciting adventure brewing and can't wait to rock it with the Nepali women on the waters of Nepal. Malaika has just finished her teaching studies so is now stoked to be an Outdoor Education teacher, and is heading to OPC to save her pennies until the Nepal trip kicks off. Malaika has her NZOIA kayak one award and spent the summer of 2005 working for the NZ kayak school.